Israel Is the World’s New Dining Hotspot
It’s Thursday night and Tel Aviv is hopping. Diners are lining up outside of Port Said restaurant; the sidewalk is filled with drinkers. It’s a similar story nearby at Santa Katarina. If you haven’t booked More...
First kosher restaurant opens at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus
A kosher restaurant has opened at Facebook‘s main headquarters in Silicon Valley’s Menlo Park for the first time in the company’s history. The kosher restaurant will join 11 other eateries, More...
The Israeli Film producer behind Boston’s beloved Tatte Bakery & Café
Tzurit Or presides over an empire in the Boston area. But this empress wears a chef’s toque rather than a crown and she’d rather be draped in yeast dough than diamonds. With the eighth branch of her More...
Nobu to replace Lure + Till in Larry Ellison’s Epiphany Hotel
Japan’s famed global restaurant empire Nobu has confirmed that it will take over the Lure + Till restaurant space at Larry Ellison’s Epiphany Hotel in Palo Alto, Inside Scoop reports. Lure + Till More...
Top13: great burger places in Israel
Humongous’s ‘Finnish’ burge In addition to fast food chains turning out mass-produced hamburgers, individual restaurants in Israel are increasingly taking pains to create quality More...
Santa Monica’s Penguin Coffee Shop becomes a Mel’s Drive-in
Many of the glorious Googie-style restaurants, coffee shops, and diners that once proliferated across the Los Angeles area have been lost to the annals of time. Others, like Santa Monica’s Penguin More...
Chef Yotam Ottolenghi Resets The Table And Its Mouth-Watering
The first time I ate a dish made from a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe, I was already having one of those perfect dinner-party moments. The scene was a porch in midsummer; six couples gathered. No rush or hurry, More...
The art of dining in Israel
The good news for lovers of gourmet food is that celebrity chef Moshe Segev’s flagship restaurant in Herzliya Pituah is back in business. Just six weeks after a fire ravaged the premises, the refurbished restaurant More...
Decadent Israeli desserts to make for World Chocolate Day
July 7 is World Chocolate Day. In honor of the occasion, the head pastry chefs of the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Hilton devised special desserts bursting with chocolatey goodness More...
Meet the Israeli Chefs Who Are Inventing the New Global Cuisine
When Yotam Ottolenghi opened his first deli in London in 2002, he was probably unaware that he was about to launch a food revolution. His Mediterranean emphasis on fresh seasonal vegetable dishes trimmed More...